High North scenarios and subnational realities: policies and practices in the Norwegian/Russian border zone
Source at https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137 . As the world was becoming more interdependent, with increased global awareness of the north-ernmost parts of the world, both the Norwegian and Russian governments showed more political commit-ment to and interest in new forms of region-b...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/15110 2023-05-15T14:25:20+02:00 High North scenarios and subnational realities: policies and practices in the Norwegian/Russian border zone СЦЕНАРИИ КРАЙНЕГО СЕВЕРА И СУБНАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ РЕАЛИИ: ПОЛИТИКА И ПРАКТИКА В ПРИГРАНИЧНОЙ ЗОНЕ НОРВЕГИИ И РОССИИ Haugseth, Peter 2018 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15110 https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137 eng eng Northern Arctic Federal University Арктика и Север Haugseth, P. (2018). High North scenarios and subnational realities: policies and practices in the Norwegian/Russian border zone. Арктика и Север, 33 - [ Arctic and North ], 116-132. https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137 FRIDAID 1682152 doi:10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137 2221-2698 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15110 openAccess VDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070 VDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240 VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori: 240 High North politics Barents Euro-Arctic Region Norwegian-Russian bilateral relations statesubstate diplomacy cross-border cooperation local border traffic borderland tourism Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2018 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137 2021-06-25T17:56:31Z Source at https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137 . As the world was becoming more interdependent, with increased global awareness of the north-ernmost parts of the world, both the Norwegian and Russian governments showed more political commit-ment to and interest in new forms of region-building and development in the High North from 2006 and onwards. Today, more than ten years later, many regional changes are evident in the Norwegian-Russian border zone, as a consequence of expanded people-to-people contacts in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region (BEAR). In this peripheral border area between two national states, villages and cities have become more open, both sociologically and legally for increased cross border cooperation (CBC) and networking. In this article I will take stock of some of these borderland openings following on from the consequence of the two nations’ rising levels of interest in the High North. It explores the ways in which (inter-)national policy-making and state-substate interactions ultimately altered centre-periphery dynamics. This article has based its approach to understanding the interplay of domestic and foreign policy instruments on the ‘substate diplomacy’ literature, which argues that increased state-substate interactions constitute an efficient in-strument for extending cooperation beyond national state borders. The efficiency of regionally driven sub-state interactions is discussed from an empirical perspective. The present study analyses various High North development contexts and discourses (effective from 2008) in the Arctic borderland between Norway and Russia. The new political commitments presented in state-level official documents (the branding of the High North) envisioned a transference of new industrial-economic high tech scenarios from state to local level. These scenarios included new borderland visa regimes, co-existing with cross-border forums invest-ments in improvements of roads, infrastructure, and transport rationalisations. The present article briefly assesses these policy rationales and their outcomes, revealing the region’s contemporary geopolitical and economical potential, as well as local and regional realities. The findings show that substate governments and stakeholders are able to operate in demanding trans-border contexts, contribute to ongoing contem-porary CBC discussions, and complement national and state-level efforts by using their regional expertise to solve problems. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Крайн* University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway Arctic and North 33 137 156 |
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Source at https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137 . As the world was becoming more interdependent, with increased global awareness of the north-ernmost parts of the world, both the Norwegian and Russian governments showed more political commit-ment to and interest in new forms of region-building and development in the High North from 2006 and onwards. Today, more than ten years later, many regional changes are evident in the Norwegian-Russian border zone, as a consequence of expanded people-to-people contacts in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region (BEAR). In this peripheral border area between two national states, villages and cities have become more open, both sociologically and legally for increased cross border cooperation (CBC) and networking. In this article I will take stock of some of these borderland openings following on from the consequence of the two nations’ rising levels of interest in the High North. It explores the ways in which (inter-)national policy-making and state-substate interactions ultimately altered centre-periphery dynamics. This article has based its approach to understanding the interplay of domestic and foreign policy instruments on the ‘substate diplomacy’ literature, which argues that increased state-substate interactions constitute an efficient in-strument for extending cooperation beyond national state borders. The efficiency of regionally driven sub-state interactions is discussed from an empirical perspective. The present study analyses various High North development contexts and discourses (effective from 2008) in the Arctic borderland between Norway and Russia. The new political commitments presented in state-level official documents (the branding of the High North) envisioned a transference of new industrial-economic high tech scenarios from state to local level. These scenarios included new borderland visa regimes, co-existing with cross-border forums invest-ments in improvements of roads, infrastructure, and transport rationalisations. The present article briefly assesses these policy rationales and their outcomes, revealing the region’s contemporary geopolitical and economical potential, as well as local and regional realities. The findings show that substate governments and stakeholders are able to operate in demanding trans-border contexts, contribute to ongoing contem-porary CBC discussions, and complement national and state-level efforts by using their regional expertise to solve problems. |
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